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dog's breakfast

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Noun1.dog's breakfast - a poor job; a mess; "they made a real dog's breakfast of that job"
dog's dinner
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
kettle of fish, fix, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, hole - informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"


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The recent explosion of in-car functions has turned some automotive cockpits into a dog's breakfast of knobs and switches.
Touch and go. (Design) by Whitfield, Kermit / Automotive Design & Production
So if you have ever asked yourself what the apparent marriage of Modernist architecture and 'Kantian' modern art was all about, you will find no answers here: this is a disciplined book about specific events in art history, marred by some lazy aspects which are no credit to CUP, who have made a dog's breakfast of some German and Russian words, and provided an inadequate index.
Kant, Art and Art History: Moments of Discipline. (Defeated by ... by Brittain-Catlin, Timothy / The Architectural Review
interests on the island when he took office, Wood said he ``wound up in a mess less appetizing than a dog's breakfast.
TAIWAN ENVOY SAYS HIS DISMISSAL UNFAIR by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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